Place
Promenade Hall, Overture Center
Promenade Hall is an elegant, versatile space designed to accommodate numerous types of special events.
Work
Laugh with Us (Madison, WI, USA)
This performance-lecture was based on a cabaret, Laugh with Us, written in the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Person
Craig Harris
Craig was the co-creator (with Lisa Peschel), musical director and pianist for the cabaret Laugh with Us.
Work
Laugh with Us (Smějte se s námi)
This cabaret was written by prisoners in the Terezín/Theresienstadt ghetto and performed in the spring and summer of 1944.
Performance
Laugh with Us (Madison, WI, USA)
Laugh with Us featured cabaret songs and sketches interspersed with historical commentary about the Jewish ghetto at Terezín/Theresienstadt.
Event
Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music, Literature, and Theater (Madison, WI, 2015)
A one-day pilot festival in preparation for Performing the Jewish Archive's global events, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Production
Laugh with Us (Madison, WI, USA)
Laugh with Us was a lecture-performance based on a cabaret performed in the Jewish ghetto at Terezín/Theresienstadt in 1944.
Person
Ian Maxwell
Ian Maxwell is associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney.
Person
Dovid Ajzensztadt
Last Choirmaster/Cantor of the Great Synagogue (Tłomackie Street Shul) in Warsaw, and a research interest of Dr Stephen Muir
Music manuscript
Dovid Ajzensztadt, Chad gadya MS score
The autograph manuscript score of Ajzensztadt's Passover Cantata Chad Gadya [One Little Goat], a research subject of Dr Stephen Muir.
Interview
Talkback with Jean Forman Grosz
A brief talkback session with Jean Forman Grosz, granddaughter of Wilhelm Grosz.
Video recording
Zwei Gesänge nach Jüdischen Volkslieder, Op. 40
A video of a performance of Wilhelm Grosz's Zwei Gesänge nach Jüdischen Volkslieder, recorded in Madison Wisconsin.